Notting Hill Carnival was long known as a Caribbean festival, but today Londoners from many cultural backgrounds participate.

Here is a selection of photos from this year's Notting Hill Carnival posted on Flickr.

The performances and contests that make up the longest carnival in the world will continue well into March.

Blogs like Uruguay Carnavalero cover the parades and competitions, re post news, and share important announcements and event schedules.

At the same time foreigners and Uruguayans dedicate blog posts to the event, share photos, videos and thoughts on the world s longest carnival.

With every that day passes, the mood on the square becomes more like a daily open carnival organised by the people and for the people.

This year, Solange González Henott wrote about Uruguay s carnival in El Blog de la Ruta , a travel blog from news site Otramérica.

Girls in costume resting at the side of the street during the Notting Hill Carnival children's parade, Sunday 26 August, 2007.

Culture Saint Kitts and Nevis is known for a number of musical celebrations including Carnival (18 December to 3 January on Saint Kitts).

The site Carnaval del Uruguay , for example, provides forums and a chat room where users can discuss different aspects of carnival.

The Trinidadian influence may be strongest in Notting Hill Carnival, but the festival has always been celebrated by Londoners with roots in many other Caribbean territories.

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As in J'Ouvert, the pre dawn event that opens many Caribbean carnivals, these masqueraders have covered themselves in mud Notting Hill Carnival, Sunday 26 August, 2007.

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In fact, the new consensus is shared by most of Labour and the main opposition within Likud.

The Labour Party, however, remained the largest party in parliament with 30.8 of the popular vote.

Indeed, if ideas were important, a leftist party like the DAP would have found it difficult to cooperate with the PAS.

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And the believer said , O my people ! I fear for you a day similar to that of the earlier groups !

Then said he who believed , ' My people , truly I fear for you the like of the day of the parties ,

And he who believed said O my people. verily I fear for you a fate like the day of the confederates .

And he who believed said O my people ! Verily , I fear for you a fate like that day ( of disaster ) of the Confederates ( of old ) !